Numan vs Medichecks: Which Men's Blood Test Should You Choose? (2026)

1. Numan vs Medichecks at a glance

Prices and panels change. These figures were checked in June 2026.

2. Where Numan wins

The pathway. This is the real product. With most blood test companies, the report is the end of the relationship. With Numan it is the beginning. A clinician reviews your results, and if your numbers and symptoms support it, that review can lead to a prescription: testosterone replacement therapy, weight-loss medication, or ED treatment, managed through the same service that ran the test. If you have been quietly suspecting low testosterone for a year, the appeal of one door is obvious.

Hormone focus. Numan's panels are built for the questions men actually arrive with. The £68 Testosterone test covers five markers. The £88 Male Hormone panel runs to 16, and the £118 Complete Hormone panel to 20, which is dense coverage of one body system at a fair price. Our testosterone testing guide explains which of those markers matter and why.

A men's service end to end. Everything, from the panel design to the follow-up, assumes a male customer with male health questions. Nobody is adapting a general test to fit you.

The trade-off.Be clear-eyed about what a treatment company's blood test is. It is genuinely useful measurement, and it is also the top of a funnel that ends at Numan's own prescriptions. That is not a criticism; it is the business model, and for a man who wants treatment it is exactly the value. But the clinician reviewing your borderline result works for a company that sells the remedy, and it is fair to hold that in mind. Numan is also men-only, and its broadest panel stops at 43 markers, well short of the widest tests on the market.

3. Where Medichecks wins

Breadth.No UK home-testing provider offers a wider menu. Hundreds of tests, from a £29 three-marker thyroid check to the 59-marker Optimal Health panel at around £249. If you want hormones plus liver plus cholesterol plus vitamins in one sitting, Medichecks sells it and Numan does not.

Independence. Medichecks sells you a test and nothing else. The doctor writing the commentary on your report has no treatment to upsell, so the interpretation arrives without a commercial destination attached. For anyone who wants to take their results to their own GP, that neutrality is worth something.

One-off freedom. You buy once. There is no programme to join, no subscription, no follow-up call steering you anywhere. Twelve years of operating since 2014 also means a deep, well-reviewed catalogue with both finger-prick and venous options.

The trade-off. Independence cuts both ways. Medichecks hands you a PDF, a doctor's paragraph, and then leaves the whole interpretation-to-action gap with you. Which marker matters most? What should you change first? When should you retest? Nobody chases you, and most people quietly file the report and change nothing.

4. The verdict, by use case

Choose Numan if you suspect the result is step one toward treatment. If you have symptoms of low testosterone, want weight-loss medication, or are dealing with ED, Numan compresses test, clinician review and prescription into one pathway, and that compression is the point. See our full Numan comparison for the panel-by-panel detail.

Choose Medichecks if you want the widest possible snapshot, a one-off audit rather than a programme, or an interpretation with no treatment attached to it. It suits the man who wants to know his numbers and then decide, with his own GP if needed, what to do about them. Our Medichecks comparison goes deeper.

Neither is a bad choice. Both use accredited labs. The honest framing is this: Numan answers “test me, then treat me” and Medichecks answers “test me, then leave me to it.” Quite a lot of men want a third thing.

5. The question neither answers: what do I do next?

Most men who order a hormone test do not need a prescription. They also do not want a PDF and silence. They want to know what their numbers mean, whether anything needs medical attention, and what they can change themselves, starting this month.

That gap is where Helvy sits. Our Complete Male Hormones panel is £119 and measures the nine markers that drive the male hormone picture: total and free testosterone, SHBG, LH, FSH, prolactin, oestradiol, DHEA-S and cortisol. A qualified clinician reviews every result. Your report arrives as Your Read, written in plain English and scored against optimal ranges rather than the wide “normal” bands, and it ends with a supplement plan built from what your blood actually showed. Not a quiz. Not a guess.

And here is the line we hold deliberately: we do not prescribe. If something in your results needs medical care, we flag it clearly and point you to your GP with the numbers they will want to see. Measurement and a non-prescription action plan from us; medicine, where it is needed, from a doctor who knows you.

If you want treatment, Numan is built for that. If you want raw breadth, Medichecks is. If you want to understand your hormones and act on them without joining a prescription pathway, that is the thing we built.

6. Frequently asked questions